Mark Kozelek quotes:

I've guess I've gotten older and my sex appeal has waned. It's OK. I've got an amazing girlfriend and she keeps me happy.

"The Moderately Talented..." is just a commentary on the conflict that happens when a young artist girl looks up to you, but you're attracted to them in a different way than they are to you.

Demos are something you do in the early stages of your career, but when you get going, you just go in and record the song.

I didn't want to put myself, or anyone else, asleep with another quintessential Mark Kozelek album.

I make music to process - because I have to, not for praise or accolades or reactions.

I wanted to give my first instincts a chance without shooting them down immediately, which I sometimes do.

Nylon string is still a new love and I'm not tired of it yet.

Trying to cope with the balance between home life and road life has been a theme in my music since early Red House Painters records.

When I get compared to artists like José González or Bon Iver, I can't help but think, 'I've been doing this since they were in third grade.'

I'm 45 and I don't have time to spend two years of my life bringing in producers and dragging the record around the planet.

Anyone who has toured as long as I have, or who has traveled as extensively, and says that they've never cheated is lying.

I don't make demos. I don't have the interest or the energy or the time.

I feel like when the songwriting slows, I'd love to help others with their records. If it's something I really believe in, it's worth the effort.

I'm a boxing junkie, a serial-killer junkie, and a classical guitar junkie. All of these guys are great, poetic references.

I'm always moving forward creatively and don't like stalling, trying to find the perfect snare drum sound.

Songs are puzzles - you get an intro, or maybe an end, but you gotta fill in the rest. Sometimes they come easy and sometimes they're a pain in the ass.

The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing.

There were a lot more girls at the shows early on. I'd get off stage and there would be options. Those days are long gone, thank god.

We're all human and life is complicated.

When you get older, you're bothered, or inspired, by other things in life than a girl breaking up with you. Things get heavier as you get older.

When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks and there's always a certain level of tension in your life.

You really think all of those indie music dorks go to SXSW every year to check out music? They go there to wear their laminates and act important and try to get laid.

I wanted to remind people that there was a time when music required an attention span.